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6:51 AM
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language
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6:39 AM
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.Always be smarter than the people who hire you.Gardening requires lots of water -- most of it in the form of perspiration.-
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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6:35 AM
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.Someone sober will worry about events going badly.Let the lover be.There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying.Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
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6:27 AM
let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eatA person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
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5:14 AM
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed never throw out anyone.
We are all something, but none of us are everything.The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
